Location: Fridley, MN Onsite
Job Summary:
This product focused position Conducts hardware and
software systems engineering, and vulnerability research on new and existing
products. Develops and refines new Techniques and procedures on an ongoing basis,
and ensures cybersecurity is fully integrated. Conducts comprehensive
cybersecurity reviews to evaluate potential vulnerabilities in cyberspace domain
of products.
Key Responsibilities:
Conducts vulnerability scans, analyzes findings, and
makes recommendations to help mitigate or
eliminate vulnerabilities in products.
Identifies systemic issues within products based on the
analysis of vulnerability findings, configuration assessments and derived
metrics.
documented requirements.
Conducts and/or supports authorized penetration tools and
testing on products.
Designs or redesigns hardware, operating systems, and
software applications to adequately address
cybersecurity requirements.
Qualifications and Competencies
Competencies:
Cybersecurity System Integration – Creates, writes, tests
and deploys scripts, code, configurations
and controls utilizing the appropriate standards, best
practices and tools to provide system
integration and data fusion that enable better
cybersecurity visibility, assessment and automation.
Product Development Execution, Monitoring and Control –
Plans, schedules, coordinates and executes the activities involved in
developing a product to a respectively aligned hierarchy of requirements and
technical profiles; monitors and communicates across functional boundaries to
meet project resource and quality expectations; ensures product capability
meets or exceeds expectations and takes mitigating actions when project risks
are higher than expected; understands the full product life cycle process and
stakeholders.
Technology Research and Development – Conducts technology
assessment and integration
processes through proof of concept projects to evaluate
its utility.
Troubleshooting – Diagnoses and resolves the
customer-identified issue by utilizing appropriate
department standards to satisfy customer expectations.
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Product Function Modeling, Simulation and Analysis –
Impacts product design decisions through the utilization and/or interpretation
of computational tools and methods that predict the capability of a product's
function relative to its system, sub-system and/or component level
requirements.
Product Problem Solving – Solves product problems using a
process that protects the customer; determines the assignable cause; implements
robust, data-based solutions; and identifies the systemic root causes and
recommended actions to prevent problem reoccurrence.
Product Verification and Validation Management – Develops
product systems validation plans from a variety of inputs to identify failure
modes, while managing product risk and relative priority; negotiates product requirements
against capability to guide project scope; evaluates analytical, simulation and
physical test results to verify product capability and validate requirements;
assesses legacy versus proposed system solution capabilities and produces
recommendations with technical documentation to support product decisions.
Manages complexity – Making sense of complex, high
quantity, and sometimes contradictory
information to effectively solve problems.
Balances stakeholders – Anticipating and balancing the
needs of multiple stakeholders.
Optimizes work processes – Knowing the most effective and
efficient processes to get things done,
with a focus on continuous improvement.
Resourcefulness – Securing and deploying resources
effectively and efficiently.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer
Science, Electrical Engineering, orrelated subject, or relevant equivalent
experience required. This position may require licensing for
compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience:
Industrial controls or embedded cybersecurity work
experience is required.Prior Senior or Lead Engineer equivalent work experience
in a relevant discipline area is required with a demonstrated track record of
technical problem solving and quality decision making. High familiarity with
Windows and linuxOS hardening techniques Preferred.Certified Ethical Hacker
(CEH), CompTIA CySA+ or similar certification preferred.
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